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TV News: Chuck rumored to have picked up 6 additional episodes, V premiers 1/4 9PM, "Skating with the Stars" debuts 11/22 - MDH Oct 15, 12:03 4
- next will be balloon animal twisting with the stars -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 15, 12:05
- I like that Chuck has done what Heroes was too chickenshit to do. (Evolved the characters) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 12:04 1
  - I hate what they've done to Chuck. - Mel Profit Oct 15, 12:05
- is the chick with the mustache going to be on Skating? -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 12:03
I know he is an ass, but I really enjoyed seeing Segal in Machete. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 15, 11:54 4
- Pretty sure I could never (spoil) - Spawn Oct 15, 12:00 3
  - especially one that....... (spoils) - groiny Oct 15, 12:01 2
    - I enjoyed this movie immensely -- nm - Lon_cHaneY Oct 15, 12:03 1
      - as did I, It is certainly a first day DVD purchase. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 15, 12:04
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- *wonders if my hsx port is still there and if i still have it short -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 15, 12:03 1
  - LOL -- nm - Matrix_Mafia Oct 15, 12:15
- holy crap, i just read that as "unicorn issue"...nm - x Oct 15, 11:56 1
  - your transformation into znufrii is almost complete. - groiny Oct 15, 11:57
- *does a happy happy dance* -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 11:55
- Thank God. nm -- nm - Sean Astin Oct 15, 11:54
ML reminds me: Brady or Sanchez? - kilbooooo Oct 15, 11:51 12
- ML reminds me: Champagne or a can or warm flat coke? -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 11:53 9
  - there is no sex in the champagne room. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 15, 11:55 2
    - and unsurprisingly, in the coke room, there's sex and beejers abound! - TFox Oct 15, 12:01 1
      - but enough about crash davis. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 15, 12:01
  - Fantasy wise, Sanchez has been the better play through Week 5 in total points (but not by much) -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 15, 11:54 5
    - guy? nm -- nm - groiny Oct 15, 11:56 4
      - There's a reason I don't win FF leagues but I get the whole "Brady is king" stuff but the numbers don't line. Same passing yards, 1 less TD and 0 INT -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 15, 11:56 3
        
        right, and the day you bench him, Brady will go for 4 td's and 400 yards. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 15, 11:57 2
        
        And his transformation into Guy will be complete. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 11:59 1
        
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- Brady -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 11:51
7 Days till Roger Waters in Ohio. -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 11:50 12
- It's spectacular. -- nm - pmb Oct 15, 12:00 1
  - I partially blame you. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 12:02
- are you comfortably numb? -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 11:59 3
  - I might that night. 10 Dates left on the North American tour and no Gilmour. Of course he will be at our show. -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 12:02
  - he just has young lust. nm -- nm - groiny Oct 15, 12:00 1
    - so thats why he told you: wish you were here -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 12:02
- LIR Remlik do you have any Gotham City Police Dept tshirts? -- nm - sycor Oct 15, 11:52 2
  - Not at this point. i did just email my guy at work who does shirt ordering to see if there are any. I do have Arkham Asylum inmate shirts -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 11:55 1
    - No I need a PD shirt for Halloween. I have a badge from Batman Begins and wanted the tshirt as part of my costume. -- nm - sycor Oct 15, 11:57
- this - Spawn Oct 15, 11:51 2
  - teach the bub how to stand on top of the wall and do a guitar solo. -- nm - Remlik Oct 15, 11:55 1
    - He shall. Him being left-handed will make it more difficult for me to teach, but he shall. - Spawn Oct 15, 11:58
I'm starving already and it's barely halfway to dinner. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 15, 11:49 1
- I'm just eating lunch! -- nm - JaxSean Oct 15, 11:53
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- 8. you're putting a running back who has had one week to learn the offensive scheme in against a decent defense - crash davis Oct 15, 11:47 2
  - I benched Jackson but that probably means you shouldn't -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 15, 11:49 1
    - nevermind. I don't know why I benched him. Proceed -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 15, 11:51
- Don't know, but glad you said this. I need to make my weekend picks / roster updates before I forget again. - JaxSean Oct 15, 11:46
- What number corresponds to "classic ML"? 14? -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 11:45 3
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    - Wait, not just based on one game, but *two* games? I take it back. It's like a 3. - TFox Oct 15, 11:48 1
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- I would do that. - Spawn Oct 15, 11:45
Meredith's Love Letters Response to: I'm a Blane and I'm Dating an Andie... - Diva Oct 15, 11:43 1
- i'm not sure i like how 'i'm dating an Andie' is morphing into a bad thing here.... -- nm - Andie Oct 15, 11:45
because chewing the cud can be metaphorical -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 11:39
To all the Mousehunt STers that are sending me lottery tickets: how do I send one back? Haven't figured that out yet. -- nm - celedhring Oct 15, 11:38 1
- Hunting Group under Friends. Click on the "send daily ballot" You can send up to 20. -- nm - TWuG Oct 15, 12:04
I think it is time -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 15, 11:37 1
- yup, i just changed to my halloween nick as well. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 15, 11:41
since its semi-controversial conversation day: There are 4 ways to reduce the deficit, which do you favor. - tRuMaN Oct 15, 11:30 58
- 1, 2, 4, 3 -- nm - znufrii Oct 15, 11:49
- Regarding #4, is the Health Care reform going to have some impact there? - celedhring Oct 15, 11:44 1
  - We pay a lot more for the same services -- nm - Lon_cHaneY Oct 15, 11:48
- 2-definitely. From all I've read, there would be no reason to raise taxes if laws agains tax havens were created and/or enforced. Andorra can't hold - Trish Oct 15, 11:42 11
  - I don't really understand corporate taxes. Their customers pay the costs of the tax, really. -- nm - mara Oct 15, 11:53 3
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    - companies charge what the market will bear. -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 11:59
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  - per the financial statements, in 2008, GE paid a consolidate tax rate of 5.5% -- (link) - tRuMaN Oct 15, 11:47 4
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      - technically it does, as they are including their deferred tax benefits in that calculation, if I read it right. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 15, 12:02 1
        
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    - and the provision for income taxes was $1,052 (in millions) per the same document. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 15, 11:48
  - Why do you hate small businesses, Trish? -- nm - Don Homer Oct 15, 11:43 1
    - Heh, small businesses actually PAY their taxes. :) -- nm - Trish Oct 15, 11:46
- tax political ad spending at 10,000% -- nm - stewie Oct 15, 11:40 4
  - the problem is you have to have some way of getting the public to know what the candidates are about otherwise you only get the rich and famous electe - Don Homer Oct 15, 11:41 2
    - Fine. Exempt an ad featuring a candidate speaking to the camera in person. - stewie Oct 15, 11:43
    - (and it's not like the media is worth a damn.) -- nm - Don Homer Oct 15, 11:42
  - heh. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 15, 11:41
- 2 big-time (plus "intelligence" spending), plus 1 -- nm - Don Homer Oct 15, 11:37 10
  - I'll take an unconventional stance here and claim that if Bush 1 had tripled the intelligence budget and flooded the mideast with agents - Max Oct 15, 11:39 9
    - It's wildly accepted that Human Intelligence fell way behind in all areas for decades once the new spy toys became available. - Mel Profit Oct 15, 11:44 5
      - the intel budget is more out of control than groiny's herpes. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 15, 11:47 1
        
        Echelon heard you. - Mel Profit Oct 15, 11:48
      - widely. :) -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 11:45 1
        
        I beat you in realizing my mistake therefor it didn't happen! -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 15, 11:46
      - wildly accepted...like people are going completely nuts. - Mel Profit Oct 15, 11:45
    - I don't think he was in a position to do that. Like if Putin started up the KGB again ... -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 11:41 2
      - He was flying high on the 100 hour success in Iraq and just abandoned them. It was a failure not to see the need for it and get it done. -- nm - Max Oct 15, 11:42 1
        
        I recently watched The Green Zone, so I have a firm understanding of exactly what happened in .... wait, no, that's wrong. - Beryllium Oct 15, 11:47
- whats the point of having SS if the payments are cut down to the level of street corner begging donations -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 15, 11:36 6
  - you could limit ssi for incomes higher than say 75k a year. you could raise the age, you could raise the amount taxed, all would drastically cut its - tRuMaN Oct 15, 11:37 5
    - Social Security payments are already reduced or eliminated if someone has earned income over a certain amount per year. -- nm - Trish Oct 15, 11:45 4
      - it shouldn't be based on 'earned'. I know extremely wealthy people who receive a ssi check each month -- nm - decline Oct 15, 11:49 2
        
        Once the first generation got past the supplemental income and labor shift aspects of the program, everyone came to see it as a forced bank account. - Max Oct 15, 11:57
        
        exactly -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 15, 11:50
      - the key word is earned. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 15, 11:48
- 2, 2, a thousand times 2 -- nm - Lon_cHaneY Oct 15, 11:36
- fwiw, this is from an npr story the other week. also, federal taxes as a % of gdp are the lowest ever (I think) in the US. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 15, 11:35
- All of the above. SSIs needs to be means tested and the retirement age needs to be raised. -- nm - TWuG Oct 15, 11:34
- Stop cutting taxes when we run in a surplus. -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 11:34
- 1,2, and also sending the Ocean's 11 crew into the central bank of China -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 11:33
- all of the above will be necessary...nm - x Oct 15, 11:33 4
  - agreed. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 15, 11:35
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    - *bookmarks this* - Lon_cHaneY Oct 15, 11:37 1
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- 1, 2 and some of 4. -- nm - Mel Profit Oct 15, 11:31
- 1 & 2, although I'm open to detailed, sensible plans to do 3 & 4. I just don't think I've heard any. -- nm - mara Oct 15, 11:31 1
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- All of the above save 1). Gov't, as a rule, could save a lot of low-impact spending if they wanted. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Oct 15, 11:31
- Tax the crap out of the country. -- nm - Max Oct 15, 11:31
- 1, 2, and 4 -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 11:31 1
  - think more, also 3. so all. -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 11:35
- 2 -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 11:30
- combination of 1 & 2. -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 11:30
Woo hoo! It's the 160 pound tumor story on Discovery health. I love it. - Trish Oct 15, 11:29 2
- it contains hair and teeth! -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 11:31 1
  - partly absorbed twin. -- nm - lileve Oct 15, 11:43
re Boston.com letter: He should dump *her*. -- nm - loosilu Oct 15, 11:27 9
- We are bringing this to another board? He made it pretty clear he will dump her, anyway. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 11:28 7
  - I was away (sorry I forgot to let everyone know!) so let me say that I think she deserves to be dumped - chromanda Oct 15, 11:32 6
    - We need some kind of clocking-in/clocking-out system here. A list of everyone who has the ST screen open, with a status, perhaps. -- nm - mara Oct 15, 11:35 5
      - so the lurkers couldn't lurk? I like it. -- nm - loosilu Oct 15, 11:56
      - There's tons of those little bars that go at the bottom of sites that do this like Meebo -- nm - kilbooooo Oct 15, 11:43 2
        
        It wouldn't normally have statuses, though. That's more in the realm of IM systems. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 15, 11:44 1
        
        The status would be important. I leave the window up all the time, but sometimes I'm AFK or busy or whatever. -- nm - mara Oct 15, 11:55
      - green balls and red balls! -- nm - Max Oct 15, 11:37
- *Yeah*! -- nm - angry mob with pitchforks si Oct 15, 11:28
*boos, throws stuff at hyde* -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 11:27 6
- *clasps hands over head in triumph*....nm - x Oct 15, 11:29
- I sort of admired hyde for that post. -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 11:28 4
  - It was quite funny - Stephen Oct 15, 11:30 3
    - I actually meant his terrible pun. -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 11:31 2
      - ah... -- nm - Stephen Oct 15, 11:32
      - I thought ruminating was clever -- nm - crash davis Oct 15, 11:32
Sabotage! -- (link) - oblique Oct 15, 11:26 [youtube] 19
- It really is a classic rap song. - Mel Profit Oct 15, 11:31 18
  - It's a classic song. Is it rap? Debatable. -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 11:32 16
    - what is if not rap? -- nm - Reagen Oct 15, 11:33 15
      - punk... core... something? i don't know. it's a good point. - TFox Oct 15, 11:35 14
        
        There are whole sections that are rap. - Mel Profit Oct 15, 11:37 7
        
        Hell, there are old Van Halen songs you could say the same about. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 11:38 6
        
        The difference is the Rap group Beastie Boys did 'Sabotage' and VH is a rock band. - Mel Profit Oct 15, 11:53 4
        
        I guess that's the crux of my point: does the identity of the group supercede the elements of the song? - TFox Oct 15, 11:57 2
        
        put plainly, I think the identify of the group does supersede the elements of the song. - Mel Profit Oct 15, 12:04
        
        (Take labelmates At The Drive-In, for example. Is "One Armed Scissor" that different from "Sabotage"? Not really.) -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 11:58
        
        Oh, agreed. Just saying. -- nm - Spawn Oct 15, 11:56
        
        /~ Walk this waaay! ~/ - kilbooooo Oct 15, 11:39
        
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        no way. i *must* have had the Beasties on there.... i did. -- nm - TFox Oct 15, 11:39 4
        
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        Sure it does. The Beasties have *lots* of rap songs. But "Sabotage" isn't necessarily one of them. - TFox Oct 15, 11:44 2
        
        Thought so. - Spawn Oct 15, 11:48
        
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  - It is. I should totally remake/improve it. -- nm - The Beeb Oct 15, 11:31

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